Chargers coach Mike McCoy and general manager Tom Telesco have been asked, it seems, at every press conference since January how they’ll “fix” Philip Rivers. Internet columns and TV debates have explored whether the quarterback can be a Pro Bowler again. An ESPN analyst this month ranked him in the bottom half of the NFL’s 32 starting quarterbacks.

Rivers hears the talk.

“It’s funny,” he said earlier this offseason. “You’d think I quit football for two years.”

As usual, the spotlight will be pointed at Rivers in training camp, beginning Thursday at 9:30 a.m. in a workout that is open to the public. The difference this year is the heat of the glare.

While vocal support is adamant on the top floor of Chargers Park, some outside the building fixate on what's next for the veteran. His 47 turnovers are second most in the NFL the past two years, the team hasn’t made the playoffs the past three, and now, Rivers must master a new offense.

On the cusp of camp, McCoy reiterated his full confidence in Rivers.

When it comes to the quarterback’s success, he directs his attention elsewhere.

“The very first question everyone asked about is Philip when we first got here, and my answer to everyone is everyone else has got to play better,” McCoy said this week. “Everything starts up front. Your offensive line has to protect better. The receivers have got to do a better job creating separation. The backs have got to do a better job, whether we have to help in protection, chipping somebody, or get out on routes quicker.”

Between 2008 and 2010, no NFL quarterback had a higher passer rating than Rivers' 103.8. He was sacked 88 times, 10th most. Since 2011, his 88.7 quarterback rating ranks 13th between Eli Manning and Matthew Stafford, and he's been sacked 88 times, second most in the league.

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His two Pro Bowlers on the left side of the offensive line, Marcus McNeill and Kris Dielman, suffered career-ending injuries in 2011. Jared Gaither and Tyronne Green were the replacements, and here at the start of NFL camps, neither is employed. The undrafted rookie, Michael Harris, who was his left tackle much of last season begins camp Thursday as the No. 4 offensive tackle.

There have been holdouts and injuries, the departures of Darren Sproles and Vincent Jackson.

All that is done.

The new Chargers regime can't bring back Sproles, but it signed Danny Woodhead. It can't bring back Jackson, but it selected Keenan Allen in the third round and monitored Vincent Brown's workload in the spring.

It can't heal the injuries to Dielman or McNeill, but it invested a first-round draft pick in D.J. Fluker and added veteran Chad Rinehart at left guard. It staged an ongoing competition between veterans Max Starks and King Dunlap at left tackle.

Rivers has bought in.

Multiple coaches and teammates said in the spring they were taken aback by the rate at which he's learned the new offense. There have been practices where he’s thrown more underneath passes than he can remember, and that added balance will be beneficial, he said, because it should allow for more third-and-manageable situations.